Iran's Supreme Leader has accused his country's enemies of meddling in recent protest rallies, as the reported death toll reached 20.

Montenegro has asked for international help to fight wildfires raging along the Adriatic Sea coastline that are also affecting neighbouring Croatia, reaching a key port.

Latest: Two German female tourists have been stabbed to death while four other foreigners were wounded in an attack at a hotel in an Egypt resort.

The Italian prime minister has urged his EU allies to take in more refugees, saying the relentless arrival of tens of thousands of rescued people on Italian shores is putting his country under enormous strain.

A Venezuelan minister has denounced the international community for not condemning the actions of a helicopter pilot the government accuses of using gunfire and grenades to attack the Supreme Court and Interior Ministry.

LATEST: Raging forest fires in central Portugal have killed at least 57 people, many of them trapped in their cars as flames swept over a road.

Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry has said that twin bombings in Kabul have killed 22 people and wounded dozens more.

Turkish opposition groups protested on Saturday in Istanbul after the Interior Ministry halted operations for 370 civic groups on terrorism-related charges - organisations that included professional associations and women's and children's rights groups.

Saudi Arabia yesterday identified the suicide bomber who struck outside the US consulate in Jiddah as a Pakistani resident of the kingdom who arrived 12 years ago to work as a driver.

Germany’s interior ministry dismissed remarks from a populist politician who called for police to be given powers to use firearms against illegal migrants, pointing out such shootings would be illegal.

Violence as MPs back plan giving autonomy to rebel-held areas.

A bus driver has been arrested after his vehicle crashed into three 15-year-old Austrian swimmers at the European Games in Azerbaijan, leaving one seriously injured.

The Ukrainian woman with Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov when he was gunned down told Russia media yesterday that she did not see his killer, as conflicting reports emerged about the availability of surveillance footage showing the slaying.

A ceasefire that went into effect today in eastern Ukraine appears largely to be holding, except around the strategic railway hub of Debaltseve.

Australian journalist Peter Greste said it was a great relief to be freed from prison in Egypt but added in an interview on Al Jazeera that he felt “incredible angst” about leaving two colleagues behind in prison.

Supporters of Egypt’s ousted Islamist president have fought street battles with police in Cairo and other cities on the fourth anniversary of the country’s 2011 uprising, as clashes left 13 people dead and dozens injured.

A crowded open-air market and nearby homes in Ukraine’s coastal city of Mariupol came under rocket fire today, killing at least 16 people, city authorities said.

Ousted Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich has been put on the international wanted list on Ukrainian charges of embezzlement and financial wrong-doing.

France's Interior Ministry has posted video footage of police storming the industrial site in Dammartin-en-Goele last week.

A man armed with a knife has attacked a police station and been killed by an officer in a suburb of Tours, a city in central France.

Ukraine has claimed that its forces have captured 10 Russian soldiers in an eastern region where Ukrainian troops are fighting pro-Russia separatists.

The German government is considering setting up arbitration courts to weigh in on what information people can force Google and other search-engine providers to remove from results.

High winds whipping across France have killed two people and, in an unusual measure, pushed the capital, Paris, into closing all parks and cemeteries.

At least a dozen armed men have seized a police station in a small town in eastern Ukraine as tensions in the country’s Russian-speaking regions intensify.

Authorities in Ukraine say armed gunmen have occupied the local headquarters of the security services in an eastern city where secessionist sentiment has sparked frequent protests since the country’s Russia-friendly president was ousted in February.

A prominent member of a radical nationalist movement in Ukraine that played a key role in recent anti-government demonstrations has been killed during a police operation to detain him, the Interior Ministry said today.

Ukraine's acting interior minister has said a warrant is out for the arrest of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.

Ukrainian law enforcement agencies say they have no information about the whereabouts of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, who has reportedly been seen in Sevastopol, a port on Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula which is the home of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet.

Ukrainian protesters have agreed to a deal with the country’s president on defusing a deadly political crisis, European officials say.

The Ukrainian presidency has said it has negotiated a deal intended to end violent battles between police and protesters that have killed scores and injured hundreds of people, but European mediators involved in the talks would not confirm a breakthrough.

Fierce clashes between police and protesters have shattered a brief truce in Ukraine’s besieged capital leaving at least 22 people dead.

At least 13 people, including six police, were killed last night as thousands of police charged into the opposition camp in Ukraine’s capital that has been the epicentre of nearly three months of anti-government protests.

Enraged protesters stormed government offices in three western Ukraine cities today, forcing one governor to write a letter of resignation, as demonstrations against the pro-Russian president and his allies intensified outside the smouldering capital.

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Fifteen people died and scores were wounded when a female suicide bomber struck at a railway station in southern Russia.

A female suicide bomber killed at least 14 people and wounded scores more at a railway station in southern Russia.

Security forces and Islamist protesters have clashed around the country, leaving 51 killed, as a national holiday celebrating the military turned to mayhem.

Egyptian security forces backed by armoured fighting vehicles and helicopters have stormed a town known to be an Islamist stronghold outside Cairo near the Great Pyramids, coming under barrages of fire from gunmen on rooftops.

Egyptian authorities have raided homes of Muslim Brotherhood members in an apparent attempt to disrupt the group ahead of mass rallies by supporters of the country’s ousted president.

Egyptian authorities have authorised police to use deadly force to protect themselves and key state institutions from attacks.

The number of people killed in nationwide clashes between police and supporters of ousted Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi rose to 278, most civilians, officials said last night.

It has been reported that the Egyptian Vice President Mohamed El Baradei has resigned.

Egyptian security forces have moved with deadly force to clear two sit-in camps of supporters of the country’s ousted president Mohammed Morsi, leading to wildly differing claims about the death toll.

Egyptian security forces, backed by armoured cars and bulldozers, have moved in to clear two sit-in camps by supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi, showering protesters with tear gas as the sound of gunfire rang out at both sites, state television and security officials said.

A report into doping in German sport between 1950 and the present day is to be published after the subject gained an increased level of interest over the weekend.

Clashes erupted early today in Cairo between security forces and supporters of Egypt’s ousted president Mohammed Morsi, killing at least 38 protesters and overwhelming field hospitals with the wounded, the Health Ministry said.

A Spanish train that hurtled off the rails and smashed into a security wall as it rounded a bend was going so fast that carriages tumbled off the tracks like dominos, killing 80 people and maiming dozens more, according to eyewitness accounts and video footage obtained today.

A Spanish train that hurtled off the rails and smashed into a security wall as it rounded a bend was going so fast that carriages tumbled off the tracks like dominos, according to eyewitnesses and video footage.

A bomb blast outside the security headquarters in one of Egypt’s Nile Delta cities has wounded 19 people, raising fears of deteriorating security after president Mohammed Morsi’s removal.